Sex offender Keith Anthony Waites, 20, from the Durham area has been caught by police

A convicted sex offender, who went missing after he was called back to prison earlier this week, has been found.

Keith Anthony Waites, who is from the Durham area, was arrested in Peterlee at 1.30am this morning by police officers.

Waites was convicted in 2013 for committing two sexual offences on a child under 13.

He was released from prison in March this year and was wanted for recall to prison for breach of licence conditions.

The 20-year-old was last seen in the Middlesbrough area on Tuesday.

“Keith Waites was convicted in 2013 for two offences of inciting a child under 13 to commit a sexual offence. He was released from prison in March this year and is wanted for recall to prison for breach of licence conditions,” a spokeswoman for Cleveland Police said.